Poor Richard improved: being an almanack and ephemeris ... for the bissextile year, 1748
Subtitle: ... Fitted to the latitude of forty degrees, and a meridian of near five hours from London; but may, without sensible error, serve all the northern colonies
By: By Richard Saunders, philom
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 5952
Publisher: Printed and sold by B. Franklin.
Published: 1747
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
Notes: At head of title: Note, this almanack us'd to contain but 24 pages, and now has 36; yet the price is very little advanc'd.

"Richard Saunders" is a pseudonym.

Probably calculated by Theophilus Grew. An advertisement for his school of mathematics appears on p. [30].

Three states noted by Miller, with varying contents on verso of leaf F1 (p. [34]), directed to readers in different localities.

Advertised in the Pennsylvania gazette, Philadelphia, Sept. 17, 1747, as to be published "Monday next."

Signatures: [A]⁴ B² C⁴ D² E⁴ F².

Evans 5952

Drake, M. Almanacs, 9694

Miller, C.W. Franklin, 419